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Eric Scheske

The Weekend Eudemon

Another Saturday am. Another bout with grogginess. It was a rough week at the office for Eric Scheske, so he concluded it at the Elks Club, starting at 5:01, overlooking pretty Lake Omena (f/k/a Crotch Lake--no joke) and drinking tall 22-ouncers with his father and

Come Here, Marcy!

He played Peppermint Patty (a lesbian, at least according to Chris Rock) and wore funny pants. Reasoned Audacity tells us that there's a campaign to make conservatives think John Roberts might be gay. Hard to explain. Check it out yourself. Link [http://www.charmaineyoest.com/archives/2005/07/

Until Whenever

> [Wedding] vows like "For as long as we continue to love each other," "For as long as our love shall last" and "Until our time together is over" are increasingly replacing the traditional to-the-grave vow – a switch that some call realistic

Rockabilly

We like Lew Rockwell's eclectic approach, and we like rockabilly. We especially enjoyed this piece today. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/davis6.html]. Excerpt: > The "King of the Cats" at it again: the greatest all around guitar player ever, Brian Setzer, is set for

We're Not Surprised . . .

. . . We've suspected for many years that certain folks like to kill babies. We always felt a little shrill thinking such a thing, but there's evidence for it, including this: > Appearing before the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services subcommittee last week, Dr. William Hurlbut, a

We've Been That Desperate Before

> Thieves posed as police officers in Russia to steal thousands of rolls of toilet paper. > The robbers dressed as policemen to make three loo roll laden trucks stop as they travelled from St Petersburg to Moscow. > When the drivers got out to show their identification they were

'bout Time

> Mainstream Hollywood, after decades of ignoring the pious - or occasionally defying them with the likes of Martin Scorsese's revisionist "Last Temptation of Christ" and Kevin Smith's profane parody "Dogma" - is adjusting to what it perceives to be a rising religiosity in

The Absurdity Continues

NYC train searches: Eighty-six year-old white grandmother? Search her. Twenty-two-year-old Arab man? Maybe not. It's random, both for sensitivity reasons and, we assume, the warped Fourteenth Amendment: > Kelly said that, in general, every 10th rider - or some other set interval - would be

Erotica is Erotica

The more rampant illegitimate heterosexual acts, the more acceptable homosexual acts seem. That might be the reason a "gay vibe" TV show like Desperate Housewives resonates with heteros, but we're just speculating, in a half-baked kind of way. We'll think about it some

Brews You Can Use III

From Leno: > According to a recent Gallup Poll, 39% of people say they prefer to drink wine, 36% say they prefer beer and 21% say they prefer hard liquor. Here's the sad part... This is a poll conducted among airline pilots!